[Info-vax] Use of logical names other than I/O redirection

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 9/13/2022 3:58 AM, Marc Van Dyck wrote:
> Arne Vajhøj has brought this to us :
>> 3) Logical names does not scale well. 50 fine, 100 fine,
>>     200 fine but 100000 does not work. Windows registry is
>>     a fine example of something that has become so big that
>>     it is difficult to find things.
>>
> Not if you use separate, dedicated logical name tables. Putting
> everything in LNM$SYSTEM is of course not good practice, but desiging
> applications to use their own table(s), use rights ids to grant access
> to them, and connect automatically to the right tables at login time
> works perfectly for me. We also use such mechanisms for our development
> environment, so that each version of each application gets its own
> set of tables.

I am sure that it works.

But it is very customized solution.

It requires changes to users login.com if I understand it
correctly.

And I don't think it makes things easily searchable
(unless there are a number of conventions everybody
need to know).

Arne